i have a friends pc here that crashed and went to blue screen whilst playing a game i have tried to go to all the options like safe mode ect and it just rebooted, so i did a format of drive c: when i tried to re install windows xp there where lots it wouldnt load, dll files sys files ect and then it goes to a blue screen again. i spoke to a tech guy at work that told me to get rid of the partition and make it one fresh drive with a wipe now i am stuck with what to do
if i do a clean install of windows xp to replace windows vista, will it create a windows.old folder that has all the stuff i had from before the clean install?
HI, I just installed windows 2000 professional onto my computer. Everything works fine except that the resolution is really grainy. On some web sites I cannot even make out what the words are. I found out that when I go into my monitor settings in display properties I am unable to install the drivers for my monitor. Does anybody know a way in which I can get around this.
My system is running with Windows 2000. Now, I just want to install Windows 98 on a separate logic drive, but it is immpossible to run the setup programm under windows 2000. How can i install windows 98 just the same.
I have two computers, one I use for gaming, the other for school. Both computers had 60gb Maxtor (school with lots of room, gaming with about 10 gb free). My school HD took a powder (the evil clicky noise of doom), but I was able to back up my files prior to that. Me being a quick thinker, I decide to upgrade my gamer puter to a 120gb (don't wanna go too nutso, as I am considering building a much superior computer), and put the good 60 gb in my old Athlon 700. Problem? I cannot get Windows XP Home to complete install on my gamer computer. (Athlon 700 installed just fine with 'good' 60gb).Gamer Computer: Athlon 1800+, 512MB DDR Ram 2100, KR7A Raid MOBO, GeForce3 Ti 200 (128MB DDR RAM), SB Audigy 2(AGP).
It is a RAID mobo, but i do not use the raid functionality, I did not have a problem before(I have my HD and my 2 roms on ide now). I go through the install steps, and I get to the very very end, where it states you are about to start Windows XP, and then it hangs, and thats it.I have tried to ensure there are no conflicts, I pulled out my sound card as well as my network card, and 're-seated' my video card and RAM. I have tried looking at using a winxp bootup floppy, booted into safe mode (the only error it detects is the missing RAID, no conflicts detected there). Heck, I even swapped out mouse and keyboard. I tried putting back the good 60gb back in the pc, and reformatting, but still get the same thing(sometimes the screen is black, sometimes the icky blue of xp, but that's it).I have no idea now. I did make sure that my bios was up to date before taking down the system originally, and it was, so no change was made there. Even swapped out the ribbon cables to ensure nothing was damaged on original removal.
My themes were all working fine but one unfortunate day i was installing one of the themes and it asked me to reboot from then on am not able to use any of the downloaded themes but i can use the themes i had installed prior to that i can use the themes i installed after that fatal installation. now the problems am facing are if i double click on a windows visual style file the themes (normally a window open with a preview of the theme) i dont get the preview of the new theme but the preview of the previously applied theme. If at all i save all the windows visual file to default themes folder and the go to properties->themes-> i just get a black box in center and if i apply that i get windows classic theme *the other problem is i get shrill noise which is unberable sometimes from the pc. i dunno how to rectify it.
i am trying to install windows xp pro onto. The problem is, i have a sata hard drive and no floppy drive. That means that i have to slipstream the sata drivers on a boot disk. I know how to slipstream, i just dont know what to slipstream. I have an ASUS a8v deluxe mobo, and i am not sure what drivers i will need. I think i am going to need Ulsata and viasraid
I cannot install windows on a PC. When i boot from either any windows xp cd or even windows 2000 cd, the first part of the installation first loads all the files and just as it says "windows is now starting up" whereby i should be given the option to press enter to load windows.the machine shuts down. I have tried everything i know.but it always shuts down at exactly the same place.
I dont know why but i cant install windows XP SP2 on my friends laptop. Its a Prestigio, it a 1.7 celeron with 1 gig of ram, 40GB hard drive and an ati mobile video card. When i install it everything works fine up until it asks me to enter the product key, at which point it tells me the key is invalid. Now i have reinstalled a spare computer with windows XP and used the code and it goes through fine (i didnt continue the install) but everytime i put the code into the laptop it doesnt work?
I am trying to install windows xp pro on my computer and it loads all the files from the CD but directly after it exits the blue windows xp install screen and then a flashing underscore (_) just flashes for ages. Does anyone know what to do? by the way i have a foxconn 945G7MA motherboard and a 300GB ATA conected harddisk as channel 1 master.
I have an Intel(R)Celeron(R),cpu 2ghz,Windows XP home 2002 with SP2. This was bought from Tiny computers 2 years ago. I never had the windows cd - it was already installed. As you may well know, Tiny have gone out of business thus my total care cover is now void. There is no problem with my computer at the moment but I have been looking into how to re-install if it should become necessary. Simple advice would be appreciated as I am not very computer literate!
just booted and installed windows xp SP1. I have 4 other computers connected to a working wireless router, with this computer connected by an ethernet cable. The cable is working properly, because my laptop can connect to the network through it. I need to connect to the internet on my new computer to run updates, download latest drivers, etc...basically getting this beast ready to start installing my favorite programs and games. But, when I plug the ethernet cable into the port on the mobo, windows doesnt detect it. There is no LAN option in the 'Network Connections' folder, but a '1394 Connection'. How do I get windows to reconize the port This is either a problem with the MOBO (asus crosshair) or a problem with SP1, and i dont know which
how do you create a self install cd of windows BUT installing it without any windows screens showing up only the ones I made myself. then it reloads to boot the system.
I have just done a fresh install of Windows XP - all is fine.Question - I am just downloading 92 updates from the M/soft site!!! Is there anyway to get hold of these and burn them to a CD so next time.
with new instal windows new drive i just recieved a replacement ibm 120 deskstar for my amd athalon im trying to instal from the windows cd everytime iget to the screen that says to creat or delte a partion it show the unpotion drive space i click eneter to instal the partion and it tells me theat there is not a windows compatiable partion to in stall to so i back up and try to cc reat a partion (C) but when i type in the partion space nothing happens the screen just keeps cycle the same options please help.
I have two problems, the file siteadv.exe is missing. I don't know why I can't get this fixed on McAffee's site, but when I put in my windows XP disc, the disc runs and the menu pops up. I click on install and a progress bar runs for a couple of seconds, then it says it needs to restart. The system restarts, goes to desktop and that is all. I get no menu that allows me to repair or anything. Do I extract this file from the windows cd, and why can't I get the cd to do any more than what I described. I have a dell XPS400.
I would like to un-install Windows Messenger.I have never in all these years used it and it's more of an annoyance than anything else.Looking around on my computer I don't see how I can un-install it.
I have never had a problem before with windows updates. however, It says I need to download that windows validation tool so I click on it to download and install and it goes through everything like it should then says it failed to install, 4 times now it comes up error 0X80070005 I went through the thing where Microsoft is suppose to help you they get info and then help you solve it, I stilll haven't heard a thing from them. The funny part is that I downloaded the windows defender (Microsoft Antispyware) and to do so I had to go throught the windows validation and no problem it went through it and I downloaded it. Is that the same thing as this windows update? anyway I can't find error 0X80070005 can anyone help because I got thinking that I haven't had any windows updates for awhile I wonder if I can't get any until I get this downloaded? Any help would be appreciated
I recieved a virus and did a complete re-install of windows xp. Unfortunately I did not have a anti-virus program. I unwisely surfed the web and seemed to have contracted another virus. Trend-micro's trial program doesn't seem to be able to locate the virus. I also loaded spybot, ad-aware, and XoftSpySE, and they say I have many problems, but can't seem to fix them every time I run these programs
I recently bought an old laptop which originally came with Windows 98. The individual had upgraded the to Windows XP which causes the laptop to run slowly. Can you tell me what is the best (simplest) way to remove XP so I can install Windows 2000
I just built a new computer and for now until I get windows 7, I was trying to put 32 bit xp home edition on my 64 bit motherboard.But everytime I try to install, it freezes.
so i have Windows 2000 and i wanna install Windows XP Pro Corporate. i burned it to a DVD and tryed restarting it to see if id run automaticly but nothing happened. then when the desktop came up i went to the comp and clicked on the disk and try to install it that way by pressing the setup thing and it gave me this message "This version of Windows cannot be installed on this machine" .Now from this point im thinkin.. well hell maybe i have to actually have XP to install this (whether this is the upgraded version or not is wat i dont know..) im not sure wat i need to do at this point. maybe download it to a regular CD or wat?
i got windows 2000 sp4 every time i try too download windows update it wont install everytime i try to open the page sometimes it freezes an some times it wont but when i do get to the page an scan my computer for updates there be 3 updates to instsall an when i hit install updates it just freezes up an dont install. then i try it again go to open the page the page just freezes up an then i have to restart my computer to get the page off cause the ctrl alt & delete wont take it off my screen can any help with this.
I recently downloaded the free 180-day trial of Windows XP 64-bit edition, and then I proceeded to burn it to a CD.I followed the steps given in the E-mail that Microsoft sent to me. The problem is when I reboot the computer with the CD in the laptop it does not read it to load and it wont install.
I was just wondering if i could have more then one OS installed on my computer my freind had told me that if i were to create a partition then i can install a different OS on it. But i wouldnt know what to do with this bit of info he gave me i know about partition magic but i feel that doing random stupid things is not a very smart idea so i thought i'd get to know all i can about this
I am trying to update windows from the microsoft site but it just dose not seem to be working right.The site will search my pc and comes up with 80 updates required. It will download them but when it trys to install it fails. There is no error code, just fail.
